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...daringly appeared, navel exposed, in costume sans midriff. One of her most famous performances was at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931: she sang the difficult "Mad Scene" in Lucia di Lammermoor in the key of F, an entire tone higher than the original score. Married to Conductor André Kostelanetz from 1938 until their divorce in 1958, Pons moved to Dallas in 1961 and remained active in local opera...
...Conductor Milton Katims told her stories and played games after her appearance with the Seattle Symphony. At age twelve, Dylana is a thoroughly natural child whom everybody seems to adore. Last week at the New York Philharmonic Promenades, where she appeared as violin soloist under Maestro André Kostelanetz, one of her concerns seemed to be to limit her smile so as to conceal the braces on her teeth. Despite a few nerve-induced intonation miscues, she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with sweep, dash and daring...
Conductor André Kostelanetz figured that it might be fun to get together with his exwife, Soprano Lily Pons-at least for a concert. With Kostelanetz on the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall and Pons at 68 looking frightened and fragile, nostalgic fans found that time has left a bit of dust on Lily's middle voice but that the famous high tones are still silvery. After a soaring Estrellita, Lily got a standing ovation, then dodged her well-wishers and headed straight...
...chief minister and then, after Britain granted associate statehood in 1967, as Premier. Bird, now 63, turned Antigua into a jet-age Cannes of the Caribbean, complete with 33 hotels drawing 65,000 tourists annually, a casino, an oil refinery and such illustrious sojourners as Dean Acheson, Andre Kostelanetz and Aristotle Onassis. His reward was to hear 70,000 Antiguans sing happy calypsos praising "Papa Bird...
...Johnny Mathis, Davis has a knack for spotting trends and picking out what will sell in almost any field of music. Since taking over in 1965, he has radically changed Columbia's image. He switched the emphasis from Broadway show albums and the "easy-listening" music of Andre Kostelanetz and Mitch Miller to contemporary rock. Columbia already had Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and the Byrds under contract. Davis greatly expanded that list by adding such innovators as Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Rock moved from 15% of Columbia's volume in early...